Author, historian, and
Librarian of Congress. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, reports,
calendars and schedules, speeches and writings, background and research
material, family and estate papers, financial and legal records, interviews,
notes, course outlines and examinations, travel documents, photographs,
scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers documenting Boorstin's career as
an educator, author, and administrator of the Smithsonian Institution and the
Library of Congress.